Bayria Eyewear Amman
A Sculpted Tribute to Marchesa Casati
Eccentricity, Mystery, Trans-formation: These are the forces that swirl through Amman, the new limited-edition frame by Bayria Eyewear. Only 200 individually numbered pieces will ever exist, each one an ode to one of the most enigmatic women in history—Marchesa Luisa Casati, the Italian heiress who lived her life as performance art, cloaked in black veils, exotic creatures, and shadows of her own invention.
Born into wealth, the Marchesa was no ordinary muse. She seduced entire art movements—Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism—and was immortalized by Boldini, Man Ray, and van Dongen. Her daily appearance was a spectacle: staged, sculptural, and spellbinding. At night, she would roam through cemeteries in lace gowns, her pale greyhounds by her side, eyes rimmed in black and often dilated with belladonna to intensify their stare.
Bayria Eyewear Amman // A Living Mask, Reborn in Acetate
Bayria’s Amman captures this metamorphic spirit in frame form. The name itself is a nod to the Marchesa’s maiden name, and the design reflects her every contradiction: fluid yet precise, ornamental yet wearable. The front is not printed but sculpted. First, excess material is removed mechanically. Then, a craftsman’s hand takes over—carving, shaping, and finishing each bas-relief until the acetate flows like liquid.
The surface moves with light, just like the Marchesa herself, whose presence transformed as she passed from room to room. Sculpted eyebrows crown the piece, a direct homage to her infamous makeup tricks: high-arched brows painted above the eyes, velvet lashes applied for drama, a gaze designed to haunt.
Black as Myth, Wearable as Legend
Bayria Eyewear Amman is formed from deep absolute black acetate, mysterious and intense. This is not simply a color but a character—a visual embodiment of Casati’s darkness, decadence, and defiance. Her companions included live snakes, leashed cheetahs, and an entourage of artists. Her homes were stage sets. Her life was a poem, never recited, only lived.
Now, that myth lives on through Amman. This is not eyewear to be worn lightly—it is a fragment of legend, reborn with modern craftsmanship and an eternal muse.
About Bayria Eyewear
Bayria, as the name of the city of Bari in ancient times. A city nicknamed "the gateway to the East", where the Art Nouveau style mixes with oriental influences, interrupted by Baroque touches along with a cosmopolitan and underground style. These realities have always coexisted in Bari: avant-garde and tradition, research and style together with craftsmanship.
Bari is a city that at the end of the 19th century saw the rage of the Art Nouveau style: these were the years in which Italy was experiencing its cultural revolution, trying to educate the masses through art and the taste for beauty, and in which there was a tendency to give free rein to craftsmanship, contrasting them with mass production.
It is precisely this mix of extremely connotating influences that the Bayria collection brings to eyewear. The series of glasses is a real tribute to the Apulian Art Noveau, in which Baroque and oriental influences converge.
Small characterizing details that are perfectly integrated in a contemporary language, with essential lines, in which traditional techniques and advanced technologies meet. The new and the old come together in a collection with a sophisticated taste.
Bayria features frames in elegant and refined shades, such as ocher, ruby red, petrol green and bottle green. And then black, essential and rigorous, the maximum expression of timeless elegance.
Unconventional frames, on which master craftsmen have been able to reproduce visual games through small engravings that create the optical effect of one frame in the other, a light and versatile style. And again, “frame in frame” workings and carvings on the front that bring to mind the bezel of a watch. The Bairya collection is inspired by the art that has made Made in Italy great in the world. That art is capable of contaminating any aspect of lifestyle: from painting, to architecture, to ceramics, to design.
Made with sheets produced by Mazzucchelli 1849, a leading company in Italy in the production of quality acetate, the glasses require a long process to produce a real design object. It takes 48 steps to get a frame. From the synthesis of cotton and cellulose pulp, 8mm acetate slabs are created, from which the front is extrapolated. Each frame is then decorated by hand. For this reason, each piece has differences in color and tone that make them unique.
A unique collection, in which comfort and research blend with history, with the Arabian reminiscences of Liberty decorations, with the gracefulness of the East and the decorative richness of the Baroque. Sacred and profane, ancient and modern, history and future. All this is Bayria.
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